Post Harvest Technology of Agri Horticultural Crops

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Post Harvest Technology of Agri-Horticultural Crops is a most wanted paradigm shift from agricultural crops to value added horticultural crops with their food processing and allied industries for the benefit of the farmers. Stagnation of agricultural growth and productivity is experienced since the decade of nineties with slow change of socio economic progress of the farm sector. Diversity and conservation of all our biological resource including genetic resources medicinal plants tropical forest resources water resources coastal resources and productive agri horticultural crops with their food processing is the need of the hour to remove hunger from the society.

Bio fach movement to thrust organic framing hi tech and commercial horticulture, biotechnology, organic foods to supply for ecological pest management use of drip and sprinkler irrigation and plastic agriculture food processing and horticulture industries export scenario incentives in food processing and horticulture schemes, efficient post harvest technology of agri-horticultural crops and modern researches etc. will surely augment the national progress reaching the goal of vision 2020. Of course all these are subject to varying nature of risks opportunities and feasibilities of enhanced socio-economic security towards the farming community.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR B L Jana

Balai Lal Jana, born on 2nd May, 1947 in the district of East Midnapore of West Bengal holds a brilliant academic record with M.Sc. (Ag.) in Agronomy. He obtained Diploma in Agronomy. He obtained Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication from Kolkata, certificate for visiting Professional Training in Agricultural Research from the East Anglia University, Norwich, England; FAI training on Rainfed Agriculture in collaboration with ICRISAT, Hyderabad, etc. He served the erstwhile Fertiliser Corporation of India, (FCI), subsequently the Hindustan Fertiliser Corporation (HFC) as a seniormost Senior Agronomist in Technical Publicity, FP & ARD and ODA-funded Rainfed Farming Project, etc. He also served as the Training Organiser, Seva Bharati Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kapgari of Paschim Medinipore district of West Bengal. He has written 15 books. He has published 70 articles in Journals of national and international repute. He is the sub-editor of "Sabuj Sona", an agricultural fortnightly and the Editor of "Bhawna", a house journal of the Eastern India Pesticides Association (EIPA), Kolkata. He visited England, attended seminars, workshops and corporate conferences of national and international status.